The question asks, "The work of the New Women, as it is characterized in the passage, gives the most support for which one of the following generalizations?"
(C) says, "Changes in social customs inevitably lead to changes in literary techniques as writers attempt to make sense of the new social realities."
The problem with (C) is that the idea discussed regarding the changing of social customs inevitably leading to changes in literary techniques is far too strong to be supported by the example in the passage of the New Women, so we can get rid of this choice.
(D) says, "Innovations in fictional technique grow out of writers’ attempts to describe aspects of reality that have been neglected in previous works."
The New Women and their work is addressed in the last paragraph of the passage. The New Women primarily focused on undiscussed facets of female consciousness, which led them to create new types of artistic techniques in order to represent those elements of the female consciousness. Thus, (D) is strongly supported by the information in the final paragraph, as the New Women intended to explore various facets of female consciousness that had not been studied before, which caused them to create new, innovative artistic techniques, so (D) is the correct answer choice.
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